Summary

In "The Blue Chair," "Day Five," overwhelmed by language, Nadia started listening to jazz while in the blue chair. The music reminded her of her father, and made her feel "feral" and "free" (248).

In "Day Six," on the sixth day in the chair, Nadia considered her relationship with her body. She considered all the ways she, and other women in particular, were taught to feel shame about their bodies. She also thought about the relationship between female desire and, what was deemed, “female hysteria” (250). She touched herself, feeling no shame. Her body and the chair moved.

In "Day Seven," on the seventh day in the chair, Nadia dreamt "that a powerful earthquake struck New York" (253). Lodged in the chair, she felt powerless as rubble and water flew around her. Finally, she extricated herself and felt her body uniting with and transforming into the...